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  1. Hello community, there is another thing that always made xat special for me and in this case I can go as far to say: even for many others aswell, That thing is it's side apps. Back in 2011, for example, xat was without a doubt the ONLY chat on the net that had chess, 4 in a row, pool, doodle, etc games integrated to work together with the chat box. The admins worked a lot on making more and better free apps in 2007 - 2012 until they suddenly stopped more and more and started first and foremost caring about new powers. Let's build on xat's until today quite unique strength of cool side app integration and improve already existing ones on HTML5, eh? Here is a list of apps and how they could be improved on HTML5: Doodle Doodle, which very much resembles a web version of an old Paint (like good old Windows 98 Paint, ahhh childhood for some while some weren't even born). Could have more features added of the Windows 7 Paint application, which could include - shapes (star, circle, square, polygons, etc) - fillbucket - more colours - colour pipette - two selectable colours at a time (one for border of shapes, one for filling) - (maybe) the ability to write text on it with FONTS Chess Chess is already available on HTML5. I always found chess to be an app that was never really finished but rather completed half-heartedly. You could move around your figures freely on the board with absolutely no restrictions whatsoever, not even proper turning. In the past, you always needed to keep your eyes peeled so your opponent doesn't cheat or move one of your figures by accident. Some features it could have added include the following: - board notation (rank and file) - rules and turns (you shouldn't be able to move your figures around freely) - (maybe) an AI to play against Piano The piano app is already a lot of fun as is for those who can play the piano. The probably biggest problem was that it was a small problem for users of non-english keyboards to play it (on my german keyboard, Y = Z, if you know what I mean). Here I have ideas to share of what could be better. It could have: - the names of notes added to it's keys (A B C D E F G A H) - the width of the keys adjustable (to display more keys at a time) - international keyboard ajustments and compability (QWERTZ, AZERTY, arabic, kyrillic, etc) - the ability to add music sheets on top of the piano (and maybe a power to write your own music sheets) - (idk if there is a power already for this? if not, add as a power!) more instruments! Like guitar, saxophone, etc.) Webcam Now the webcam app only (kinda) worked when it first released and stopped working a little after a while. Well, after all, it never really worked well. I see it as a good addition since many successful online chats like Discord have the ability to do video chat today. So, either improve it or remove it, that's entirely your choice DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS. One must not do caming if they don't want to, remember. It's everyone's own decision. All this can help us have more fun and attract new users here, I'm sure. Greetings, Voyd
  2. I agree this takes up space it shouldn't (as of now). Now, Flower, you can already move the player inside box. But that doesn't help against the fact that it is "inside box" (convering up messages and content)! This is especially annoying if you are a moderator or owner at a chat and need to be able to keep track of everything going on. My suggestion is make the video player be like on Discord as part of the message. I. e. for example Flower sends me a message in PC containing a youtube video and that video will be stuck to her message as part of her message and only visible when looking at my chat with her. I mean, I can only see the video when I click the tab with the private chat with Flower. As stated, I'd love to see a similar concept the "Pop-up viewer" uses for the side apps (moveable around the chat box with a title bar, with a close button on it).
  3. Voymo

    Phoenixes

    I think this would be a cool power suggestion. How about a thunder phoenex, too? If we already have fire and ice phoenixes. I like mystical creatures like dragons, the yeti or phoenixes. And we already have complex animations on xat => see (bomb) smiley or (ufo) smiley or (angel) smiley , for example. So why not again? But please, not Limited (ono) I dislike limited powers because I dislike trade. Especially now that xat is a bit dead. Gotta wait for xat to get the visitors it deserves again for better trading!
  4. Hello Duygu, xat experienced a lot of change in the past especially 2006 - 2012. One change from that time was the side app buttons being added. The first app was the "user slideshow", a primitive version of the "grid" app, which was, along with it's button, first on the right hand side of the screen, not the left. The buttons got put to the right hand side and the admins started programming all close to all the side apps we know and love now in the time 2008 - 2012 like a two-men-army. The layout of the chat group rooms changed a little from time to time in these years and didn't at all in 2013 - 2019 besides "forum" and "wiki" buttons being added in the top bar. And looking at our competition sites or just other social sites in general, like youtube, you can see how much they changed design and layout in the past. Some users always complained about change, but in the end it was good – just looking at the fact that youtube is the most widely used social video site until today. Try to see it in the positive way that xat FINALLY updates it's technology and layout besides rushing new powers all the time. The app buttons being stuck to the corners of the screen and the apps opening so close to the corner of the screen was OK and looked good back in the days of 2007 - 2009 when xat's side app buttons came to be, considering monitors being smaller back then and in part still good old square shaped (computer/laptop monitors used resolutions of 1024x768, 1366x768 , 1280x1024 or 1600x1000 back then). Nowadays, with people using xat on minimum 1080p and maximum 5k devices, that is not anymore the case, since one must do endless tours with their mouse to reach from the chat box to the app button and cross their eyes to watch a so far away youtube video while chatting. To find all the apps on the HTML5 box and room, click the sphere with the 4 coloured squares on it, which can be found in the chat next to the 8ball. It will open the apps overview, which includes translator and everything. This is much better for today's times of giant monitor resolutions. I'm very happy and proud about what is happening on xat the past few months and it only reminds me of those golden days back in 2006 - 2012 when xat became so popular to have MILLIONS of people around the world to chat to. As stated the site back then experienced a lot of changes (and these changes weren't always new powers, far from that). xat was ahead of them all in those golden days with millions of people to chat to worldwide and two dedicated, fun-having admins. But since then, the tables got turned and xat started lacking behind competitors. Until now... Edit: the translator app isn't in the apps view as of now. It is yet to be developed and added, as it seems. Soon ... Best, Voyd
  5. For side apps, outside of the chat box of course. Great work! And sry for not paying attention
  6. Hey, the title bar and moveable YouTube Window is beautiful and an example of an app just how I thought all others also should work. But could you make it so the player is not locked to being inside the chat box, instead we can move it outside? That would be great.
  7. Hey, the title bar and moveable YouTube Window is beautiful and an example of an app just how I thought all others also should work. But could you make it so the player is not locked to being inside the chat box so we can move it outside? That would be great.
  8. Yes I know It works that way. The problem I have with that is the following: either you just use a xatframe, which leaves Flash users with a black background and without custom design or you just use CSS, which leaves HTML5 users with a black background and without custom design But using both a xatframe and a CSS as fallback for good old flash users is not an option anymore since the recent great update.
  9. Hello, I created a topic on the HTML5 bugs section that would better be here than there. Since we weren't able to move it here, I just took a screenshot of everthing that was written and posted there so far. This way, I don't need to rewrite it and also can include the replies already made easily. Please click this image to view it full-size and read it. If your monitor is smaller than 1080p, here as a clickable link: https://i.imgur.com/VTcaPSY.png Voyd
  10. Hello, it's me Voyd again with yet another suggestion. I rush out suggestions now that I see how hard development is going since I feel it's just the right time to do so now. One thing that also always kept me on xat was it's in my eyes very visually appealing design. I just love how it came to be mostly during my so far favourite era of digital design fashion: 2005 - 2011 (the time when Windows Vista was created, released and then Windows 7). xat always had something "vistaresk" (meaning, you could see that admins took inspiration from the design and layout of Windows Vista when it goes to their site and especially chat box and apps, which was the newest Windows OS in late 2006 / early 2007 – late 2009, when the admins were most active. You might hate Vista, but NOT for it's design. The best Windows ever on that aspect imo. For example, look at the old flash smilies app, which displays a vistaresk kind of blue aurora unterneath the list of smilies. Moving on to my suggestion. My suggestion is to give users on the new HTML5 box the ability to not only customize the colour of the buttons, but also the colour of the windows (meaning the semi-transparent areas on the chat box that consist of the message area, users area and typing area: (inspired by the ability you could change colour of your windows aero glass bars and areas on Windows Vista/7) Now that we are at it – why not also add a "Blur Switch" option to the new HTML5 box settings? That switch would toggle if you wanna blur the background image beneath these areas or not. Example from my chat: See how the background image blurs behind these areas on my chat box? To accomplish that, I just used a simple line of CSS: #chat embed{backdrop-filter:blur(2px)}#chat embed{-webkit-backdrop-filter:blur(2px)}#chat embed{-moz-backdrop-filter:blur(2px)} BACKDROP-FILTER is a quite new feature in CSS3 to apply CSS filter effects behind the target object and one solution of how developers on xat could accomplish my suggestion. As you can see, I also applied semi-transparency and backdrop-filter on the upper bar containing the xat planet Logo and clickable items. I used table[height='51']{background:linear-gradient(rgba(0,0,0,88%),rgba(66,68,70,84%))}table[height='10']{background-color:rgba(66,68,70,84%)}table[height='10']{border-bottom:#808080 2px ridge} Where the percentages control the opacity. To apply the backdrop-filter beneath these tables, just add selectors for them to the backdrop-filter CSS styling. So, second suggestion: give users the option to customize the opacity of the title bar area with the xat planet Logo and clickable items on the new HTML5 page at certain degree, maybe just with allowed variations from 50% transparent - 100% opaque. To do that, we could use a "Slider" inside the chat settings I also applied the filter behind apps, see here: This translator app has a blured background. And: It is also one of the old xat apps that has by default semi-transparent background. The new HTML5 apps that already have and/or plan to get one – why not include these? Let the option in the Chat Settings to toggle the blur and change the colour of app windows also, together with the chat box window's blur and colour. Or maybe even as a seperate switch and slider. That is up to you developers. And again, to apply the backdrop-filter behind the apps, I just added selectors for them to the backdrop-filter CSS styling: #media embed. For me, xat to this day is the most beautiful chat that exists on the net. That's just my taste. Best wishes and further fun developing, Voyd
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    name limit

    I really hope this will be increased again. Some people want to have a name with a cool combined smiley, a complex namegrad and a hat, which often exceeds 128 chars. xat's smiley combining, name colouring and pawns were what made it special after all. Some of your decisions I don't understand.
  12. Yes, I meant the sclera. Sry. Corrected it.
  13. Hello fellow xatters, I LOVE THE NEW XAVI APP IT IS AWESOME BRO But could more mustaches be added? Maybe first of all all the mustaches of the Moustache Power. Otherwise, here's my real life beard style, displayed on a Sims: Would be very cool 100% if more could be added, some free, some as a power. Maybe the moustache power beards as a power. I'm hyped!
  14. Well I just think it'd be cool be able to use CSS for the remaining flash users while using xatframe for the HTML5 users so both have a proper background ... But this is trivial. Lel
  15. You made it so we cannot use a xatframe anymore when we don't have a background image added. The problem is that I cannot add a background image when wanting a "fallback" CSS for a cooldesign for my flash users. Could this be changed until flash is at it's end of life and HTML5 is more stable? Would be very cool...
  16. Hello, I like the new xavi app. It has many new features that the old one didn't. But could you make it so you can color the sclera, not the pupils at the eyes section? I think it looks kinda weird with the white sclera but colored pupils... Greetings, Voyd
  17. I cannot insert my name correctly and save in the HTML5 box on xat5. It will cut it off before I even can save it. My whole name: Voyd(vfangs#FFED8C#suback#clouds#kstdevil#crown2#C61313#dracula#550033#880000#kdetri#FFFFFF)(glow#000001#grad#F8BD4E#F8BD4E#F8BD4E#C96330#990911#990911#r90)(hat#e#skuskull#000001)
  18. Hello fellow community, xat's smileys in the smiley line are nice and big. Sometimes too big, when me and my friends on xat accidently hit a smiley from the Line when they actually just wanted to click the message box to type something. We're all getting older and may also not want to see colossal sized, cute smilies all the time on the Line, too. On the old flash xat there was a way, well, more a bug, but a useful one, too make the smileys in a chat box's Smiley Line smaller using the Gscol and Gback powers. To do that, you needed to type add eye into the corresponding box in the Chat Box Settings. Like so: Try it on the old flash chat on your group, if you want. Here is a screenshot of how it could look like: Cool thing is that using this in the past not only made the smilies appear smaller, but also made their hitbox smaller (meaning, they were less disruptive when one would see it that way). Maybe it could be added as an official FEATURE in the Chat Box settings now that we're at it? Like an Option where you can choose if you want your smilies BIG or SMALL? I'd also like this to happen! Regards, Voyd
  19. It's a cool idea to then get an additional pawn colour for free. But it's not that easy to determine what person is "famous" and what not. Maybe volunteers and/or smiley makers who've been doing their job since years? As a form of reward? There has also always been the problem of one being "locked" to the cyan pawn once they had it, meaning no powers whatsoever could change their pawn (I know that from Techrax). But with the HTML5 box, maybe we could change that.
  20. I support this idea. At least as a PC/PM feature. Maybe even as a general feature also available on main chat. xat needs change in order to attract new users. As harsh as it might sound for some.
  21. You cannot add the old mouths and eyes with GBACK. Only the classic smiley background gradients. I edited my post for it to be more descriptive.
  22. Hello fellow community, many of us and especially old xatters love very much the Classic Power. One thing I always wished was for Classic to be a fully fledged Group power, giving you the ability to not only use the #cback as a default smileyback, which is already possible using Gback, but also the ability to use the old smiley's mouths and eyes (#wc) by default in your group for everyone as the standard, which isn't possible as of now. What do you guys think? Should Classic be boosted? Best, Voyd
  23. Hello. This article is mostly for me to keep an overseeable list for you of my opinions what I personally like about HTML5 (so far). To counter potential negativity of mine and keep track for me (and you). Since I'm mostly active on the chat box but things get lost quickly in the flood of daily messages, I'll post screenshots here of rather constructive things I say during my time on xat. This is like a personal little temporary blog/gallery article on the forums. I confirm the user Assassin405 is me. (Screenshots from xat.com/HTML5)
  24. No problem. Thanks for your relaxed and professional reply, even though I already "annoyed" on the chat box with parts of these topics bugging me. LOL. If you want, I can become your Firefox tester. I use the browser on a regular basis, as you might've guessed. Whenever you need something tested, you can notify me and I'll test it. But for daily usage, it's too incomplete for me to be happy with yet in general - be it on any browser there is out there. I spent alot of money on xat and would like to see all my powers work ... I think many users would prefer xat to become more stable and bugs to be fixed. I am sure it would attract them. There were many angry users who rioted about never fixed Flash bugs in the past aswell, such as smileys or avatars not loading properly, which could only be fixed by reloading the site once or sometimes multiple times.
  25. Hello xat community, I just wanted to tell you that I'm quite fed up with the way development of the HTML5 chat box went so far. First of all, it seems to me as if the code that was written up to this point was just tested in two browsers - Chrome and Opera. While ignoring the fact that code must be written to work equally well on Firefox and Safari browsers. For example, on Firefox, the smileys and pawns shake annoyingly when the chat box is loaded. I've been some of a Webdesigner myself and I know that there are always ways keep the code clean, short and simple, that work for Firefox and Chrome equally well - meaning browser neutral. To find them, you need to research online more and test for BOTH Firefox and Chrome, ofc. Taking that into consideration, parts of the HTML5 box's code imo need to be rewritten completely. The parts of the community who tell me on the chat box to "just use Chrome" - no, I won't. You please program your (censored) stuff to be cross compatible with Firefox, Safari and Chrome. If I bought a fridge and told the business my fridge doesn't work in my house, they won't tell me to put it in another house either, do they? They take back the fridge and they fix it to work, as part of the customer service. In defense of Firefox - at least it has built-in tracking protection and doesn't talk back to Google on everything and all I do on the Browser. Furthermore, the browser REALLY got better SIGNIFICANTLY with Quantum release. A message to all Firefox users out there - our browser works fine everywhere else - don't let an incompetent community tell you to change your browser just for ONE social network that doesn't work properly in our browser. Furthermore - why do you keep adding new features with older features added in the past not yet fixed and yet still not stable? For example,.you work on a search feature in friendlist, while NAMEGRAD in HTML5 is not working properly and is displayed upside down in comparison to Flash xat and for saving/updating your name you need to click "save" twice for some reason. "Away" is also not working properly etc. It's all known. Fix the old stuff first before adding new stuff, or the future result will be a buggy, confusing mess you won't be able to keep track of anymore, trust me. Last but not least some information: You only need to test your code on Firefox, Chrome and Safari. All other browsers today are forks based directly on either the source code of Firefox or Chrome, meaning they use the same rendering engines under the hood. Two examples: if something works in Mozilla Firefox, it will work in Comodo IceDragon. If something works in Google Chrome, it will work in Opera. See the list of web browsers on Wikipedia. Everyone else who might be frustrated with HTML5 development in ANY way - feel free to vent and let out your frustration here. This is what I created this topic for. Greetings, Voymo
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